How to Play Diatonic Button-Accordion Volume 3

By Henry Doktorski

In How to Play Diatonic Button-Accordion * Volume Three, Henry Doktorski teaches how to play the second row of buttons in the right hand. This edition is a continuation of the lessons taught in volumes one & two. The one row button-box is more challenging to play due to the limitations of right-hand pitches & left-hand accompaniment. A button-box with two right-hand rows is much easier to play.

Contents include:

• About John J. Kimmel: Button Accordion Pioneer
• Pitches of the Right Hand
• Detail of the Left-Hand Buttons
• Detail of Right-Hand Buttons
• Pigalle: Add C, D & E
• Lili Marleen: Add G, A & B
• Blessed Assurance: Add F#, D & B
• Colonel Bogey March: Adding Low E
• Old Rugged Cross: Use F# on the 2nd Row
• Vieni Sul Mar: Add Low G & A
• Beautiful Dreamer: Add C#
• I've Been Working On The Railroad: Using more pitches on the 2nd Row
• Greensleeves (What Child Is This?): Introduce a Minor Key
• Hatikvah: Play in A Minor
• O Sole Mio: Add Eb
• Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey: Accidentals
• William Tell Overture: Use Alternate Fingerings
• Waves of the Danube: legato vs staccato
• Emperor Waltz: rubato vs strict rhythm
• Blue Danube: Articulations.